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The productivity effect of migrants : wage cost advantages and heterogeneous firms

Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - 2015

Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of … migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz … (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different productivity levels and imperfect substitutability between migrants …

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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan G. - 2014

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … our analysis of the local effects of immigration and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …

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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan - 2014

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Labor Market Effects of Immigration : Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …

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Labor Market Effects of Immigration - Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Sinning, Mathias - 2011

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …

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The cushioning effect of immigrant mobility

Özgüzel, Cem - 2021

During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or - 3% of the total labour supply, on average. Using municipal registers and longitudinal administrative...

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Immigration and innovation

Maré, David Christopher; Fabling, Richard; Stillman, Steven - 2011

. -- innovation ; immigration ; local labour market …We combine firm-level innovation data with area-level Census data to examine the relationship between local workforce … characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local skills, and the likelihood of innovation by firms. We examine a range …

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Local labour market conditions on immigrants' arrival and children's school performance

Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål; Umblijs, Janis - 2018

In this paper we analyse the impact of labour market conditions at immigration on school performance for the immigrants …

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Do English skills affect Muslim immigrants' economic and social integration differentially?

Yuksel, Mutlu; Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Guven, Cahit - 2019

This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...

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Immigration, human capital formation and endogenous economic growth

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2015

composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover …, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical …

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